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John L
15h 36m

Can I modify the properties of multiple items at one time?

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Adding a product to a material makes tracking it in the reports page a lot cleaner but as far as I can tell in order to add a product you have to manually go into the properties of each take off 1 at a time and chose the options. It would be awesome if I could just select multiple and edit the properties of all selected items at 1 time. For example...



CT Deck - 1/2" 30x144 will be a commonly repeated material take off added to everything I do. I added products to ZZ so I can set the properties....




but if that same exact material is being used in multiple areas across the same project it gets cumbersome to go into the properties of every single "CT Deck" and manually set those drop downs to the correct material. If I could just ctrl+click a bunch of them, then edit all at once I'd only have to do it 1 time total instead of having to do it 1 time for every take off




Right now if I was to multi select the same thing like the image above and right click > properties it would only change the properties of the specific take off I right clicked on rather than all the selected ones.


Or just let me know if I'm overlooking something obvious. Up until now I've only been using zztakeoff to get linear dimensions then manually inputting those sizes into our spreadsheet that calculates material yield but my long term goal is to streamline that so ZZ does it at the same time I do a take off. MY current ZZ work flow is only maybe 72 hours in the making so nothing is set in stone, this request is just something that would speed things up. I know I could make a template that already has the product filled out but that would cause my template list to get so incredibly bloated. My Corian product list alone is 99 sku's and that's just 1 of many manufacturers I'll be adding to ZZ so having a "CT Deck" template for every sku is kind of silly. Some projects use multiple sku's at a time.

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Lorin Allred zzTakeoff15h 28m

Hey John, we'll look into making it easier to set a product on multiple items at once.


Currently, you can right-click your selected items and bulk update properties, but we only allow updating custom properties for now. I'll chat with the team about some way to update the products.

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